In the United States of America our justice system was made so people will be punished for thing they do that are against the law. The only way this system works is if people do their civil duties. Some of these civil duties are jury duty and testifying if you are a witness one of the most important civil duties that people forget abouts is reporting a crime if you see it happening or if you know it is going to happen. These duties are what make our government and justice system work. When people don't do their duties then the wrong people are accused or found guilty of crimes. This novel, Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a great example of the wrong people or person in this case being accused for the crime. Which causes a teenager to lose his innocence.
There were four people involved in attempted robbery of the drug store. Only two of them were prosecuted. One of them was James King who took a gun from Alguinaldo Nesbitt, the owner of the store who was trying to protect his store. Then King shot Nesbitt and took cigarettes from the store. What ended up happening was Steve Harmon who was talked into being a lookout for the robbery and never actually said he wanted to be involved with the robbery. Even though he didn't ne cessarily say he did want to do it He got himself involved with the robbery which turned out to be more than he bargained for. he wonders to himself, “What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.” He wasn't even in the store when the robbery took place. It is not right that out of the four involved the only two of them were being prosecuted and and one of them was the least involved out of all four of them.
As a result of the wrong person being charged of a crime a teen aged boy lost his innocence. He was forced to go to jail at 16 years old. He was a minor. he shouldn't have even had a normal trial yet he was in jail and lost all of the small...